Roofing-bracket



A. GUBDLE.

ROOPING BRACKET.

(No- Model.)

No. 288,488.. Patented May 18, 1884.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT Ormea.

ALFRED GUEDLE, OF CANAL DOVER, OHIO.

ROOFING-BRACKET.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,463, dated May 13, i884. Application filed February 23, 18H. (No model) To all whom it mag/.concern- Be it known that I, ALFRED GUEDLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canal Dover, in the county of rluscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Roofing-Bracket, of which the following is a speciiication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to roofing-brackets; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangementl of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

Figure l is a View in perspective of my improved roofing-bracket extended to its fullest capacity, and in place on a roof of the steepest pitch to which it is applicable-viz., ten and one-half inches to the foot. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, the dotted lines showing the different pitches of roofs from four inches up to ten and one-half inches, the latter being in full lines. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the angleirons removed from the seat, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the intermediate and lower serrated leg-sections of the bracket.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the scat of the bracket, which is of wood of about one-half inc'h in thickness, and is about twelve inches long and elevenincheswideinafull-sizedbracket. The castings are all of malleable iron, to prevent breakage. -Two angle-irons, b, are secured to the under face of the seat a, near each edge, in the direction of its length, by screws c, passed through screw-holes c in the arms, and through screw -holes c2 in lateral strengthening-lugs d (Z at the upper ends of the vertical sections e e of these angle-irons b. These lugs are made solid and integral with the angle-irons, as also are the strengthening-webs j' j of said irons b b. The vertical portions e e of the irons b b are four inches in length from the under face of the seat a to the spursf/g at their lower ends.

These sections e e, as well as the lower and in termediate sections, hereinafter described, are about one-fourth of an inch thick and one inch wide. Their outer faces are provided with lateral notches or serrations ci, which are about one-eighth of an inchthick and about one-eighth rations e* on the sections e e.

of an inch apart. They are also each provided with two screw-holes, i rZ-one near their lower ends and the other just below the lower ends ofthestrengthening-webs. These screw-holes t t" are for the reception of the points of the set screws Z2 i2, by which the intermediate sections, kk, ofthe bracket-legs are adj ustably secured to the sections c e, to lengthen the legs when necessary.y The middle or intermediate leg-sections, k Zt', are provided on both faces'with lateral notches or serrations similar in thickness and as to distance from each other to the ser- The intermediate sections, 7a ls, are slotted vertically at Z through the middle nearly throughout their entire length, as. shown, and through these slots Z the set-screws i2 t pass into either the screw-hole t' or Z, as the case maybe. The lower ends of the intermediate leg-sections, Z; 7c, are also provided with spurs g g, which are intended, as well as the other spurs g g used in this rooting-bracket, to engage the roof or shingles quickly and safely without injuring either. rlhe set-screwshave washers interposed between their heads and the faces of the leg-sections. The .lower leg-sections, m m, are serrated on one face only, are slotted at msimilarly to the intermediate leg-sections, and are provided at their lower ends with spurs g g also. The intermediate sections, k 7c,

are provided near their lower ends, in line with their slots Z, with screw-holes n, to receive the points of the set-screws o o, by which the lower leg-sections, m m, are adjustably secured thereto. Every adjustment of the sections one notch is equivalent to one-fourth of an inch, as the teeth are one-eighth of an inch thick and one-eighth of an inch apart.

It will be observed that the bracket can be adjusted from four inches by twelve inches up to ten and one-half inches by twelve inches, as shown. To get the adjustment between seven inches and eight and one-half inches, the setscrews connecting the intermediate and upper leg-sections should be placed in the upper screw-holes, it', in the sections e e. The bracket may be used by removing the intermediate and lower sections for four inches, with the intermediate sections, (which then become thelower sections,) up to seven inches, and with all of roo the sections, upto ten and one-half inches; and this lattei` is as great a pitch as any bracket is likely to be used upon. I

The device is cheap, simple, safe, and durable, and is not likely to get out of order.

A bracket and shelving support consisting of a ribsupport having wall-bearings and a series of transverse pin-seats in the rear of a smooth continuons front edge, and a bracket forked at its rear end to embrace the rib-support, said bracket having edgenotches designed to engage pins or screws in the shelf, to prevent warping, has been used prior to my invention, and the construction is shown in Letters Patent N o. 255,695, of March 28, 1882; and I make no claim to said construction.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is

l. In a rooting-bracket, the combination, with the seat, ot' the angle-irons having their horizontal portions secured to the under face ofthe seat, and provided with the strengthening-lngs and webs made integral with the horizontal and vertical portions ot' said irons, and the vertical portions provided at their lower ends with the spurs for engaging the root', substantially as specified.

2. In a rooting-bracket, the combination, with the seat provided with angle-irons secured by their horizontal portions to the under face of the same, and having the vertical leg-sections provided with lateral serrations on their outer faces, and screw-holes intermediate of their ends, of the slotted leg-sections serrated on both faces, and provided with spurs at their lower ends, and set-screws and washers for adjustably securing said slotted double serrated sections to the upper leg-sections, substantially as specified.

3. In a rootingbracket, the combination, with the seat and angle irons carrying the serrated uppeileg-sections, provided with screwholes, of the intermediate slotted leg-sections, serrated on both faces,and provided with screwholes in line with their slots near their lower ends, and the lower serrated and slotted sections having engaging-spurs at theirlower ends, and set-screws and washers for adjustably connecting the lower and intermediate legsections together, and for adjnstably connecting the intermediate sections to the upper sections, substantially as specified.

4. A rooting-bracket having serrated and slotted detachable and adjustable leg-sections secured together by set-screws and washers, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claiin'the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED GUEDLE.

Witnesses:

SIMON I?. MUMMA, FERDINAND Bannon. 

